The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral ScienceH. C. Baird, 1872 - 433 pages |
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Page xi
... result of a necessity for cultivating the " inferior soils . " So far indeed was this idea carried out , that it was not unfrequently suggested that the remedy for existing difficulties would be found in throwing out of cultivation all ...
... result of a necessity for cultivating the " inferior soils . " So far indeed was this idea carried out , that it was not unfrequently suggested that the remedy for existing difficulties would be found in throwing out of cultivation all ...
Page xiii
... result having been that of showing that , with societies as with individual men , physical and mental development , health , and life , had always grown with growth in the rapidity of circulation and declined as the circulation had been ...
... result having been that of showing that , with societies as with individual men , physical and mental development , health , and life , had always grown with growth in the rapidity of circulation and declined as the circulation had been ...
Page xiv
... results necessarily from conversion to human use of forces that have existed from all time ; and , that there is , in this respect , no difference between man and * Ibid . p . xli . † See note to page 407 . the trees which adorn our ...
... results necessarily from conversion to human use of forces that have existed from all time ; and , that there is , in this respect , no difference between man and * Ibid . p . xli . † See note to page 407 . the trees which adorn our ...
Page xvii
... resulting from accu- mulations of the past ; labor thus tending to an equality with capital , and man becoming from hour to hour more free . In the whole range of law there is nothing more beautiful than this ; nothing furnishing more ...
... resulting from accu- mulations of the past ; labor thus tending to an equality with capital , and man becoming from hour to hour more free . In the whole range of law there is nothing more beautiful than this ; nothing furnishing more ...
Page xxi
... results of a persistent use of the d priori method of reasoning in reference to the most important of all the sciences , it may now , we think , be hoped , that at no distant day it will come to be admitted that , in common with all ...
... results of a persistent use of the d priori method of reasoning in reference to the most important of all the sciences , it may now , we think , be hoped , that at no distant day it will come to be admitted that , in common with all ...
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Page 62 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 48 - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal science, by the name of Philosophia prima...
Page xx - With savages the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated, and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.
Page 437 - AMOROUX, AND JOHNSON.— The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, and Machinist's and Engineer's Drawing Companion ? Forming a Complete Course of Mechanical Engineering and Architectural Drawing. From the French of M. Armengaud the elder, Prof, of Design in the Conservatoire of Arts and Industry, Paris,, and MM. Armengaud the younger, and Amoroux, Civil Engineers.
Page 208 - ... perpetual thunder and lightning of countless steamboats; the currency sound and abundant; the public debt of two wars nearly redeemed; and, to crown all, the public treasury overflowing, embarrassing Congress, not to find subjects of taxation, but to select the objects which shall be liberated from the impost.